A Study on the Euphemisms of Epitaphs in Sui and Tang Dynasties

About This Novel

The stone carving corpus "has to move from traditional epigraphy to systematic scientific research, and the tasks to be completed are very heavy." This book attempts to make a comprehensive discussion to a certain extent in the context of detailed research on epitaphs. For example, comparing the words used in epitaphs in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, we summarized 93 euphemisms for death in epitaphs in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and 35 new euphemisms appeared in epitaphs in the Tang Dynasty. In addition, using bisyllabic word data from Sui and Tang epitaphs, the first examples of 21 words in related dictionaries were advanced, and 14 missing meanings and four types of word examples were supplemented. At the same time, by focusing on women's epitaphs in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, which accounted for a quarter of the total epitaphs in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, this paper preliminarily explains the differences in the terminology of women's epitaphs in the Middle Ages and the beginning of modern times. In addition, adapting to the characteristics of Chinese discourse, for the first time using unearthed documents as corpus, four factors for the cohesion of medieval epitaph discourse were summarized. The research in this book explores the value of epitaph corpus by integrating various elements of language. In terms of content, the euphemisms reflect the changes in etiquette and customs such as weddings and funerals, as well as the structure of judgment terms; it contributes to the improvement of related reference books; it involves the Tang Dynasty documents contained in the epitaph text, the words quoted from the epitaph, etc., And it also expands the perspective of the study of the epitaph material itself.

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